Theodore peterson



(No Model.)

T. PETERSON. LINE FASTENBR FUR BXERGISING APPARATUS.

' Patent-ed May 10, 1892.

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THEODORE PETERSON, OF AKRON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE SOHUMAOHER GYMNASIUM COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

LIN E-FASTEN ER FOR EXERCISING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 474,760, dated May 10, 1892.

Application filed May 1, 1891. Renewed April 4, 1892. Serial No. 427,718. (No model.)

To aZZ whom) it may concern.- as shown in Fig. 4, and which plate is usu- Be it known that I, THEODORE PETERSON, ally embedded in the part to be attached and a citizen of the United States, residing at flush with its surface, as shown in Figs. 1, 5, Akron, in the county of Summit and State of and 6. 55 Ohio, have invented acertain new and useful In operation the looped ends are swung Improvement in Line-Fasteners, of which the apart and the bent ends inserted in the orifollowing is a specification. fice in the plate O, as shown in Fig. 5. The

The object of my invention is to provide a looped ends are then brought together, therenew and improved device for attaching lines by spreading the bent endsinside of the plate, 60 no of different kinds to other objects, which as shown in Figs. 1 and 6, and the cord D or shall be quickly applied and released, and is a hook attached thereto passed through the especially designed for use in gymnasiums loop, the tension of which keeps the loops in connecting the exercising-apparatus stays together and prevents the withdrawal of the with the floor or with other parts, but may be bent ends. 65 used Whenever it is desired to attach a line It will be obvious that where a flexible cord to other objects. is used it may remain in the loops when they To the aforesaid object my invention couare opened. sists in the peculiar and novel devices here- In using the invention to attach the cord inafterdescribed,andthenspecificallypointed to the ball E the plate 0, which is of thin 70 out in the claims, reference being had to the steel, is placed inside the bag with its openaccompanying drawings, which constitute a ing registering with acorresponding opening part of this specification. in the bag and covered on the inside with a In the accompanying drawings, in which patch F, of soft material, a similar patch G similar letters of reference indicate like parts being placed on the outside of the ball. The 75 2 5 in the different figures, Figure 1 is an anchline D being thus united at each end to the ored ball, the connecting-cord being united ball and floor, respectively, is drawn taut and to the ball and floor by my improved fastretained by a friction-slide H. v ener; Figs. 2, 3, and 4, enlarged details of the Having thus described my invention, I fastener; Fig. 5, a section of the floor and claim* I 80 3o retaining-plate, showing the fastener being 1. Aline-fastenerconsistingof two metallic inserted therein; and Fig. 6, a perspective bars having loops at one end and opposite showing a line fastened to a floor by my imoutwardly-turned ends pivoted together at provedfastener and retaining-plate. their angles, their bentends being arranged Referring to these drawings, A A are short to pass each other when the looped ends are 8 5 metallic bars with a loop at one end and havswung apart, substantially as shown and deing the other end turned at a right angle scribed. with the plane of the loop. The turned por- 2. In a line-fastening device, the combination is cut away on one side from the angle, tion, with two bars looped at one end and bent where it is pierced for a rivet, and the face outwardly at the other and pivotally con- 0 of the bar and loop on the side opposite the nected at the angle, in combination. with a turned portion is fiat. The two bars are metallic plate having an orifice less in diunited, with their flat faces contiguous, by a ameter than the combined lengths of the bent rivet B, passing through the rivet-holes, the ends of the bars, substantially as shown, and flat sides of the bent portions being in the for the purpose specified. 5 same plane, so that they pass each other when In testimony that I claim the above I heregie looped ends are swung apart, as shown in unto set my hand.

ig. 5. Fastened to the part to which it is A 1 desired to attach the line is a metallic plate IHEODORE PEI ERSON' O, having an orifice less in diameter than the In presence ofcombined lengths of the bent part of the O. P. HUMPHREY, fastener when the rings are brought together, 0. E. HUMPHREY. 

